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Cuba’s evolving news agenda

At the Argos Theatre in Havana, Yenys Laura Prieto Velazco purchased a ticket for Diez Millones, a popular play about a Cuban family torn apart by the ideological fanaticism of the Cuban revolution and by the father’s departure to the U.S. during the 1980 Mariel boatlift.

Late last October, as I accompanied Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez in a cab
ride from LaGuardia Airport to her hotel in Manhattan, we talked nonstop about
what had changed in Cuba during 2013 and about her plans for 2014. Two things
she told me then were particularly striking.

New York, October 5, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the arrest of three independent Cuban bloggers and calls
for their immediate release. Yoani Sánchez, one of Cuba's most prominent
bloggers, was detained yesterday along with her husband, journalist Reinaldo
Escobar, and blogger Agustín Díaz in the city of Bayamo, according to news
reports.